Based on the data released on 20 December 2024, the National Capital Region (NCR) accounted for 180,524 registered live births representing 12.5 percent of the total 1,448,522 registered live births in the country in 2023.

The City of Makati recorded a total of 5,120 registered live births for the year 2023, which was 4.1 percent higher than the previous year. This accounted for 2.8 percent of the total registered live births in the National Capital Region, and 0.4 percent of the total registered live births in the country. On average, a total of 427 live births occurred on a monthly basis and 14 live births on a daily basis.

Most live births are attended by Health Professionals

Out of the 5,120 total registered live births in the City of Makati in 2023, 5,098 of these were attended by health professionals which constitutes 99.6 percent of the total number. Alternatively, 0.2 percent or 12 of these were attended by traditional birth attendants, and the other 0.2 percent or 10 were attended by other attendants.

Majority of live births take place in Health Facilities

The percent distribution of registered live births by site of delivery is shown in Figure 3. For the year 2023, the majority of live births in the City of Makati took place in health facilities, which represents 99.4 percent or 5,089 of the total number. In contrast, 0.6 percent or 31 live births took place at home.

The peak age of mothers at childbirth is 30-34 years old

Figure 4 highlights the number of registered live births with the highest and lowest distribution by mother’s age group. In 2023, the highest total of 1,589 registered live births was delivered by mothers aged 30 to 34 years old, which was 10.9 percent higher compared to the previous year. The second highest total was among mothers aged 25 to 29 years old having 1,375 live births, which exhibited a 3.4 percent decrease from the previous year. This was followed by 1,029 live births among mothers aged 35 to 39 years old, which showed a 20.6 percent increase compared to the previous year.

Younger age groups, such as 20 to 24 years old and 15 to 19 years old, experienced a decrease in the number of registered live births. A total of 712 live births were recorded among mothers aged 20 to 24 years old, representing a 10.1 percent decrease from the previous year. Mothers aged 15 to 19 years old with 139 live births, declined by 9.2 percent from the previous year. In contrast, mothers aged 40 to 44 years old showed a 3.6 percent increase, from 252 live births in 2022 to 261 live births in 2023. Additionally, the number of live births among mothers aged 45 to 49 years old remained the same at 9 live births. Meanwhile, live births among mothers under 15 years old increased from 4 in 2022 to 6 in 2023, which was 50.0 percent higher compared to the previous year.

Explanatory Note

Data on births presented in this release were obtained from the timely and late registered births at the Office of the City/Municipal Civil Registrars all throughout the country and submitted to the Office of the Civil Registrar General through the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) - Provincial Statistical Offices (PSOs). The information presented includes births that occurred from January to December 2023 based on data files received by the PSA - Civil Registration Service (CRS) from the PSOs and processed as of 31 August 2024. Figures presented herein are not adjusted for under registration. This release includes births of Filipinos whose usual residence is abroad and births of foreign nationals that occurred in the country during the reference period. Births of Filipinos abroad which were reported to the Philippine Foreign Service Posts are presented in a separate report.

Vital Statistics are derived from information obtained at the time when the occurrences of vital events and their characteristics are inscribed in a civil register. Vital acts and events are birth, deaths and marriages, and all such events that have something to do with an individual's entrance and departure from life together with the changes in civil status that may occur to a person during his lifetime. Recording of these events in the civil register is known as vital or civil registration and the resulting documents are vital records.

Counts on Births include individuals who are born in the Philippines whose usual residence is in a foreign country.

Live Birth is a complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a product of conception, irrespective of the duration of the pregnancy, which after such separation, breathes or shows any other evidence of life, such as beating of the heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, whether or not the umbilical cord has been cut or placenta is attached; each product of such birth is considered live born.

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NARCISO H. DINO
(Supervising Statistical Specialist)
Officer-ln-Charge
NCR lll Provincial Statistics Office